The impressionistic novel from Christian Cooper features a Black teenager who looks at birds through binoculars and instead sees the faces o
In an interview, Mr. Cooper said the graphic novel “shouldn’t be looked at as any one experience, because it’s not. It’s drawn from a whole bunch of experiences and woven together from that — my own and the ones we keep hearing from news reports.”
“What happened to me is minor compared to the fatal consequences for George Floyd later that same day, but it all comes from the same place of racial bias,” he added. “I am not trying to equate these things. What I am trying to say is: ‘See the pattern.’”
Mr. Cooper said the graphic novel was deliberately not an exact recounting of his May 25 interaction with Ms. Cooper.
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